{"id":1401,"date":"2008-06-11T20:43:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T01:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2010-11-23T23:39:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T04:39:26","slug":"challenging-stereotypes-about-asian-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/11\/challenging-stereotypes-about-asian-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Stereotypes about Asian Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The graph below, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/10\/education\/10asians.html?ex=1213761600&amp;en=10d2ec47825f8a8f&amp;ei=5070&amp;emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\">the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>,\u00a0challenges a stereotype about Asian-Americans and their choice of major in college.\u00a0\u00a0The author\u00a0writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The report found that contrary to stereotype, most of the bachelor\u2019s degrees that Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders received in 2003 were in business, management, social sciences or humanities, not in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering or math.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/06\/race-education-asian-american-bas1.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1403\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/06\/race-education-asian-american-bas1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"173\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The article also discusses the way in which the category &#8220;Asian-American\/Pacific Islander&#8221; makes invisible the dramatic discrepancy between the educational attainments of Asians who&#8217;s families immigrated from different places.\u00a0 For example, they write:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;while most of the nation\u2019s Hmong and Cambodian adults have never finished high school, most Pakistanis and Indians have at least a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n<p>The SAT scores of Asian-Americans, it said, like those of other Americans, tend to correlate with the income and educational level of their parents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, to a great degree, the success of a given Asian immigrant group in this society is correlated with the wealth of the nation from which they immigrated.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The graph below, from the\u00a0New York Times,\u00a0challenges a stereotype about Asian-Americans and their choice of major in college.\u00a0\u00a0The author\u00a0writes: The report found that contrary to stereotype, most of the bachelor\u2019s degrees that Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders received in 2003 were in business, management, social sciences or humanities, not in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,29,34,252,2125,285,1759,290,293],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-class","tag-education","tag-healthmedicine","tag-immigrationcitizenship","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29482,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/29482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}